Christmas Eve and Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. I hope you all did as well!!

On Christmas Eve we relaxed (Mike had the day off) he went out for a couple of hours to finish up the Christmas shopping and the rest of us just hung out. It was nice. Then that evening we went to Mike's families house and had a dinner, read the Christmas Story and then opened up presents. Mike's parents made the girls baby doll cradles. The girls LOVED them!! They had a lot of fun getting IN them too!! Thank goodness they were made VERY sturdy!

On Christmas morning we opened presents at our house with the girls and then Grandma and Grandpa Flanders came and the girls were SO excited to have them at our house!! They were showing off all their new toys! Afterwards we went to my (Allison's) parents and talked to my brother Brian for about 2 hours!! He is in Germany on his mission and it was so great to be able to hear his voice and know that he is doing an amazing job there! After the call, we opened even more presents. Lauren had a fit because she wanted to open ALL of them (including Abby's)!! Abby had a moments as well, but when we finally got her to open the gift from Grandma and Grandpa Beckstead (my parents) she was frantic!! She couldn't open it quick enough!! They had given her a horse and princess Carriage for her barbies. She absolutely LOVES it!! (Lauren does as well.. that is one fight I have to contend with every day now! :) )

In the afternoon we went over to my Grandma and Grandpa Browns house for some lunch. It was fun to see the family that we only really see once a year!

Then we went back over to my parents house because Mike told me that he forgot to give me one of my gifts. He went to the fridge and pulled out a variety of chocolate covered fruit that he had made just for me. So THAT is what he was doing on Christmas Eve!! I have the most wonderful husband in the world! How did I get so lucky?!

While we were there, it started snowing HARD!! So we decided it probably wouldn't be the best idea to go to Mike's family party. We were sad, but better to be sad than get into an accident on the way. So instead.. my sister pulled out the Wii and we played the Rock Band and Wii Fit for a while.. FUN GAMES!! Then we went home and put the girls to BED!! What a FUN and CRAZY day!!